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About GE Profile Opal OPAL01GENSS Countertop Nugget Ice Maker:
- Refreshing nugget ice is made from compacted ice flakes and is perfect for cocktails, sodas and other beverages
- This ice maker produces one pound of fresh ice per hour and has a large-capacity bin that holds up to 3lbs of crunchable nugget ice
- Begin enjoying your first batch of ice in 20 minutes or less
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As for distilled water, I tried that for about six months when we lived elsewhere and had soft well water. My experience was that it made the ice hard and brittle. As soon as I stopped using the distilled I got the soft packed snow effect back. Just my two cents.
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As for bacteria/junk it says to clean it once a week. With tat said we do it once a month with a bleach solution and descale it with white vinegar every 3 months. I take the discharge from the bleach solution and feed it into the side tank, shake it up real good, and run it through the side tank bottom thingy then rinse that stuff also. So far so good.
If it ever dies we'll buy the 2.0 without a second thought.
Overall I love and hate this thing. My replacement unit is super loud, and ended up with the same failure as the first one (after a bit it goes into the "pump" mode a few times a day). I'll keep using mine until it dies then maybe get a 2.0.
Don't buy the 1.0 version.
However, some things --- warranty:
* the warranty for the 1.0 hasn't been too awful. I sent a recording of it making a super ugly grinding noise to onpoint-warranty-opal . kustomer . help which seems sketch AF, but I promise it really did work.
* With fairly little fanfare, they messaged me and asked me if I wanted to change it out. It came here about 2 weeks after I said 'yes'.
* dropped the old one off at Fedex
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* Not being able to clean the internal tank is a bummer, but I figure that gets clean when I have to descale it every 3 fscking weeks.
* The side tank develops a vacuum.
* This thing gets pretty hot which is a pretty real summer consideration.
* I have no idea, but even the replacement unit has the issue where the front power button just doesn't work. How you make a non-functional power button is beyond me.
EDIT: Someone mentioned the power consumption --- YES. It uses a bucketload of power. I don't know the energystar on it, but I think it's like 300-400 watts for like half of a day.
gen 2 seems to fix it, though i havent seen any definitive to say that fixes it 100%.
I own a gen 2 and have been using it non stop (asides from 2 week cleaning) for the last 4 months. Using a TDS tool, i put RO water in rated at 44, and the ice output is roughly the same at 48.
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